Grammatical Interfaces in English Object Extraposition

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Jong-Bok Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제25권 제3호, 117~131쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.12.30

영문 초록

English allows to extrapose a clausal element to the sentential position, leaving the expletive pronoun it. As such, English object extraposition appears to be a simple process, but a careful examination reveals much more complicated variations. In particular, we observe that there are cases where the expletive is obligatory, optional, and prohibited. The present analysis looks into the formal properties of English object extraposition and provides a way of capturing such variations relying on the grammatical interfaces among argument structure and realization, lexical information, functional constraints, and so forth.

목차

1. Basic Facts

2. Questions on the Variations

3. Lexically controlled Properties

4. Relationships with Object Extraposition

5. Explaining the Variations

6. Conclusion

References

키워드

English object extraposition grammatical interfaces variation HPSG lexical properties